Second World War Quotes

117 quotes by 104 authors

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the… — Juan Goytisolo
The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It… — John Keegan
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes. — Ernst Zundel
We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear in the American… — Mike Gravel
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow… — Eric Hobsbawm
When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George… — Andrew Roberts
I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land,… — Michael Apted
Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people. — Kim Campbell
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central… — Kenzaburo Oe
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign… — Fredric Jameson
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined… — Lee Kuan Yew
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more… — Jan Peter Balkenende
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a… — Jan Peter Balkenende
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist Â«chaosÂ» of… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought… — Albert Pike
The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have… — Jeremy Clarkson
On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a… — Laurens van der Post
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country. — Antonio Tabucchi
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that befell the nations… — Jurgen Graf
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and… — A. A. Gill

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